Artificial intelligence in business and finance: the companies, the money and the tools.
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World Foundation has raised $52.5 million to expand World ID, its proof-of-human infrastructure, as AI adoption accelerates across enterprise platforms and the wider internet.
OpenAI has appointed the CEOs of BNY and Nubank to its board as it prepares for a potential IPO, competes with Anthropic and faces rising pressure from China's AI challengers.
OKX has appointed former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo to its Board of Directors as the crypto exchange expands its institutional, tokenization and AI ambitions.
Blockchain Futurist Conference 2026 is expanding its AI Futurist Conference into a two-day event featuring agentic AI, robotics, digital identity, virtual reality and autonomous commerce.
Tether has open-sourced BrainWhisperer, a brain-to-text AI engine that runs entirely on-device through QVAC, expanding its push into privacy-first, decentralized artificial intelligence.
Wallet in Telegram now offers tokenized access to SK Hynix's record-breaking $28 billion US listing through xStocks, bringing one of the year's biggest AI-driven equity offerings onchain.
The Federal Reserve has appointed a16z co-founder Marc Andreessen to co-lead a new AI task force as policymakers assess artificial intelligence's impact on productivity, jobs, inflation and the US economy.
World opens its London flagship on Oxford Street, expanding access to World ID and Orb verification across the UK.
UpsideOnly has surpassed 100,000 users within weeks of launch, using AI and crowd intelligence to reward accurate market predictions without requiring users to risk their own capital.
Nearly 90 startups reached unicorn status in the first half of 2026 as venture capital poured record funding into AI infrastructure, robotics, enterprise software and the technology powering the next wave of innovation.
MoonPay has expanded its crypto onramp to Claude, becoming the first platform available across ChatGPT, Claude, Grok and Perplexity as AI assistants evolve into the next gateway for digital finance.
OpenAI's reported proposal to give the U.S. government a 5% equity stake has sparked a broader debate over whether Americans should own part of the AI economy through a sovereign wealth fund.
